[mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

[Nick]

On 28/09/05, Scott Minneman <sminneman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had the same problem on my FC3 box.  To fix it, I created a symlink:
>
> # ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc
>
> That creates a link from /dev/lirc to /dev/lirc0, so lircd is able to
> see the device.

It is also possible to use udev itself (it creates the /dev entries)
to create a symlink between /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lirc. If you're
interested in udev, the following is a useful read:

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Nick